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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791365403321

Titolo

Culture & rhetoric [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Ivo Strecker and Stephen Tyler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2009

ISBN

0-85745-666-0

1-282-62788-0

9786612627880

1-84545-929-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Collana

Studies in rhetoric and culture ; ; v. 1

Altri autori (Persone)

StreckerIvo A. <1940->

TylerStephen A. <1932->

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Culture - Semiotic models

Communication and culture

Language and culture

Rhetoric

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ttile page-Culture & Rhetoric; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I-the Chiasm of Rhetoric and Culture; Chapter 1-The Rhetoric Culture Project; Chapter 2-Precursors of Rhetoric Culture Theory; Chapter 3-Homo Rhetoricus; Chapter 4-Listening Culture; Chapter 5-Practice of Rhetoric, Rhetoric of Practice; Chapter 6-Chiastic Thought and Culture; Chapter 7-When Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair; Part II-Figuration-The Persuasive Power of Deeds and Tropes; Chapter 8-Rhetoric, Truth, and the Work of Trope; Chapter 9-Figuration-A Common Ground of Rhetoric and Anthropology

Chapter 10-Tropical Foundations and Foundational Tropes of CultureChapter 11-Convictions: Embodied Rhetorics of Earnest Belief; Chapter 12-An Epostemological Query; Chapter 13-Beyond the Unsaid; Chapter 14-Future Imperfect; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

While some scholars have said that there is no such thing as culture and have urged to abandon the concept altogether, the contributors to this volume overcome this impasse by understanding cultures and their



representations for what they ultimately are - rhetorical constructs. These senior, international scholars explore the complex and multifarious relationships between culture and rhetoric arguing that just as rhetoric is founded in culture, culture is founded in rhetoric. This intersection of rhetoric and culture constitutes the central theme of the first part of the book, while the second